It's significant because it shows that there is still a market for providing advice to individuals or companies that are either sanctioned themselves or doing business with sanctioned entities. Some professional services firms such as PWC are saying we're not going to do this work but others say well hey it's legal and it's a big part of their careers perhaps. Now does this all undermine Western sanctions or the effect they're supposed to have? On one view it does undermine the sanctions in the sense that there are clearly some providers such as Kitesurf that are willing to do work for businesses or individuals in Cyprus which would not be legal under Australia nor Canadian sanctions. However those sanctions don't bind in Cyprus they

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